HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL BE MURDERED BY BLACKS TODAY?..........THE LOOTING ACROSS AMERICA is as black as the staggering murder and crime rates of BLACKS ACROSS AMERICA. Black Lives Matter? NO LIFE MATTERS TO BLACKS!

Thursday, May 18, 2017

FORD CUTS THOUSANDS OF JOBS - ECONOMIC COLLAPSE POSSIBLE

UAW ARE SERVANTS OF BIG AUTO AND WALL STREET

"Martha, a worker with six years at the Ford Chicago Assembly plant, reacted to the Ford job cuts. “They just want more profits for themselves,” she exclaimed."

OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics: The
Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Super Rich Ratcheted up!

The American oligarchy, steeped in
criminality and parasitism, can produce only a government of war, social
reaction and repression. In its blind avarice, it is creating the conditions
for unprecedented social upheavals. It is hurtling toward its own revolutionary
demise at the hands of the working class.

BUT WE KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE!

“The massive transfer
of wealth will not go to investment, but to acquiring bigger diamonds; more
luxurious mansions, yachts and private jets; new private islands; more security
guards and better-protected gated communities to segregate the
financial nobility from the masses whom they despise

and fear.”

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike,

has become a
kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.

This is the way a
great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen

McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com

US autoworkers discuss Ford job cuts, Washington political crisis

By Shannon Jones
18 May 2017

Autoworkers in the United States received a new jolt this
week with the announcement of thousands of job cuts by Ford targeting
white-collar workers. The cutbacks are only the most recent job cut
announcements impacting the autoworkers and come amidst signs that the
seven-year boom in auto sales is slowing.

Wall Street is meanwhile braying for higher profit margins
by Ford and the other US-based automakers, complaining that the record,
multibillion-dollar profits of the car companies over the last seven years are
not sufficient to meet investor expectations. Of course, never mentioned is
where those profits must come from, which is the sweat and blood of
autoworkers.

On Monday, the Wall Street
Journal reported that Ford could cut up to 10 percent of its workforce
worldwide, which would translate into 20,000 jobs. The company has said it
plans to slash some $3 billion in costs in 2017.

The company has some 30,000 white-collar workers in the US
alone, so the cuts could impact 3,000 workers. On Wednesday, the company said
it is immediately targeting 1,400 salaried positions in North America, with the
cuts to be implemented primarily through early retirements and buyouts.

The job cut announcement came just days
after the Journal reported that investors had criticized the
“pathetic” performance of Ford stock. Wall Street investors largely ignored the
Ford job cut announcement. Stock prices fell for Ford and other automakers amid
the general 373-point selloff Wednesday over concerns that the political crisis
in Washington could derail Trump’s plans for a massive corporate tax cut.

Since 2014 the markets have punished Ford stock for failing
to meet Wall Street expectations, despite steady profits for the past seven
years, including $1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2017.

The cuts once again expose the phony claims of the Trump
administration and the news media about the booming US economy and supposed
“full employment.” The billionaire president has appointed both Ford CEO Mark
Fields and GM top executive Mary Barra to economic advisory boards and both
companies, along with the United Auto Workers union, have embraced Trump’s
reactionary “Buy American, Hire American” campaign to expand production in the
US at the expense of workers and plants in Mexico and other countries.

The Journal singled
out the UAW for facilitating a new wave of layoffs by expanding the number of
disposable temporary workers. “GM and Ford are making cuts to their US
workforces that could far outpace the job commitments made in recent months
amid political pressure. Armed with union contracts that were reworked a decade
ago, domestic car companies can respond more rapidly to investor concerns about
the bottom line.”

Workers contacted by the World
Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter expressed solidarity with
workers at Ford and anger over the insecurity they face with the ever-present
threat of layoffs. Several also spoke about the crisis in Washington and the
disconnect between the false picture of life in America promoted by the
political establishment and the realities facing ordinary workers.

Martha, a worker with six years at the Ford Chicago Assembly
plant, reacted to the Ford job cuts. “They just want more profits for
themselves,” she exclaimed.

She said rather than hire more full-time workers at her
plant, the company, in collaboration with the UAW, was expanding the use of
temporary and part-time workers as sanctioned by the sellout, 2015 national
contract.

“They just told our temporary part-time workers (TPT) they
will be working 40 hours a week until September, but will not be made
full-time. Instead they are making them what they call special part-time (SPT)
and will then convert them back to TPTs in September.

“It is the first time they have ever done this. They waited
to do this so they didn’t have to pay them the special $1,500 “inflation” bonus
we get in June. You have to be working two weeks before May 15 as a 40-hour
employee to qualify.”

The ongoing threat to auto jobs is feeding into the growing
sense of insecurity and anxiety among workers, who feel the ground being pulled
from under their feet. It comes amid the expansion of US wars in the Middle
East, anti-immigrant raids and the passage of a draconian health care bill by
the US House of Representatives targeting Medicaid, the government-sponsored
health care plan for low-income households.

In April, GM indicated that it was also considering cuts to
its white-collar workforce. Earlier this year, GM announced thousands of
permanent hourly worker job cuts at its Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant as well
as three plants in Michigan, including the Delta Township plant, Lansing Grand
River and the Detroit-Hamtramck facility.

Barry, a GM retiree from the Delta Township Plant outside of
Lansing, Michigan said, “They just laid off 600 two days ago from the plant
here. They told them they would be brought back by the first of the year, but I
don’t believe they will ever be brought back.

“The Grand River plant is not doing well either. You drive
by the lot and it is full of Buicks and Camaros.

“There have been record numbers of cars sold, but they can’t
maintain that. They are going to be starting some real cutbacks. It is boom and
bust.

“It used to be that if the company made a profit, you got a
raise. Now they are making huge profits, but we didn’t get back cost of living,
the retirees didn’t get a bump in pensions and they hit us for more co-pays.”

He noted the disconnect between the political debate in
Washington and the lives of ordinary working people.

“My mother lives in Flint. The whole block is like a war
zone. She has a nice, well-maintained house, but she can’t sell it, even for
$10,000 because of the water crisis. That is just a fraction of what she paid
for it. It is a sad situation for someone who has worked all their lives.”

He added, “Trump is fascistic, glorifying the state, it is
highly disturbing.

“It is obvious he wants to take us into war. If Congress
were to pass a law requiring the US to take in the refugees from the countries
it bombs, I don’t think we would be so quick to go to war.”

Martha said the ongoing political warfare in Washington over
the Trump administration was anxiety provoking and confusing given the
increasingly difficult situation that workers confront in their daily lives.
“It is a mess with the economy. I don’t understand; it is so chaotic.

“It seems it’s all about the money. They could care less
about what the low man is fighting for.”

A Fiat Chrysler worker, now at Warren
Truck outside Detroit, who wished to remain anonymous, told the WSWS Autoworker
Newsletter that she had been laid off for six months from the nearby
Sterling Heights Assembly plant before being recalled.

“I personally know the situation is serious. I understand
what those workers at Ford are going through.

“We lost our supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB) and
some had to get jobs elsewhere. I personally did not get SUB pay until the end.
It was a big mess.”

The Fiat Chrysler worker spoke about the sellout contract
the UAW rammed through in 2015 over mass opposition. “I think the contract was
BS. They had it so they could have temps working and we were in the street. We
got a raise, but they ended up laying us off. At the same time, you had TPTs
working 60 hours.

“They had people with three years’ seniority who were laid
off and some people with two years were still working. I was placed first at
Warren Stamping and I was just placed at Warren Truck in March.”